A larger share of people aged 15 to 64 are in work in Kinkora than in 81% of Canadian towns
Kinkora is the usual workplace of 430 people, and 470 of its own residents commute to a job. From Kinkora, the drive or ride to work averages 22.3 minutes, with 1.6% going an hour or longer. Median household income in Kinkora was $78,600 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
What the numbers say about work in Kinkora
More people in work than most towns
In work at the 2021 census: 82% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 61% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 22.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 1.6% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
The Jobs & income grade for Kinkora: A−
Better than 82% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; its weakest, household income.
Graded against Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more; less unemployment and a shorter commute count in its favour.
How the grade works
Census 2021 measures, weighed equally against every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 people or more: the share of residents aged 15 to 64 in work, median household income (2020), the unemployment rate and the average commute. Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
How many in Kinkora have a job: 82% of 15-to-64s
All 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Prince census division have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 61% of residents 15 and over were in work. Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 67%. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: people in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64, and the census unemployment rate (15 and over); the 25-to-54 rate is Statistics Canada’s own (98-10-0485). The Labour Force Survey and business counts are context, not grade inputs.
The length of the trip to work in Kinkora
Only 29% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 40% in the middle of Prince Edward Island’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 18.9 minutes (Statistics Canada).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: commuting duration in five bands; our average uses each band’s middle (75 minutes for an hour or more), so it runs about two minutes above Statistics Canada’s own.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
Kinkora is quieter on a working day than at night
Of those who commute, 19% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
Where people work
- Borden-Carleton85
- Borden60
- Summerside60
- Crapaud, Part 230
- Charlottetown25
- Kinkora25
- Kensington, Part 120
- Crapaud, Part 110
- Cornwall10
- Alberton10
- Summerside145
- Kinkora50
- Kensington, Part 145
- Charlottetown40
- Borden-Carleton35
- Kensington15
- Miscouche15
- Stratford10
- Bedeque and Area10
- Enfield10
Coming the other way, Borden-Carleton sends the most (85).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
2021 Census, people with a usual place of work: where residents of Kinkora work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Household income in Kinkora
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 53% of Canadian towns.
One of the 3 other places of 2,500+ in the Prince census division has a higher median. Against the middle of Prince Edward Island’s towns ($82,000), Kinkora’s median is 4% below. These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes that year.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 4.1% of Kinkora’s commuters
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 10% against 21%. Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
EI claims in the Prince census division run 5% below their 2019 level
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 12%. In February 2021 it reached 8,480, the most in the series and 1.7 times the 2019 average. That is about 10.5 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100). Nobody publishes EI beneficiaries for Kinkora alone, so this card uses the figure for the Prince census division.
The Walkability grade for Kinkora: C−
Better than 21% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in and around Kinkora
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinkora | 82% | 9.9% | $79K | 22.3 min | A− | C− |
| Kensington 9.7 km | 74% | 8.7% | $66K | 20.6 min | C+ | A |
| Kensington, Part 1 9.8 km | 80% | 12% | $86K | 19.4 min | A | D |
| New London 13.2 km | 76% | 12% | $89K | 26.2 min | B | D |
| Summerside 13.9 km | 74% | 10% | $63K | 15.6 min | B− | B+ |
| Crapaud, Part 1 16 km | 79% | 9.3% | $82K | 28.1 min | B− | D |
| Malpeque Bay 17.3 km | 83% | 12% | $81K | 21.6 min | A | D− |
The people of each place: the share in work, unemployment, household income and the average commute, with both grades once they come.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for Kinkora, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Household income. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- Employment Insurance. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- In work. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Which towns we compare. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
Questions about work in Kinkora
How do people in Kinkora get to work?
94% of commuters drive, 1.6% take public transit and 2.5% walk; 10% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Kinkora?
The average commute is 22.3 minutes; 29% of trips take under 15 minutes and 1.6% an hour or more.
Where do people in Kinkora work?
Only 19% work in Kinkora itself; the rest go first to Summerside (145) and Kinkora (50).
How many jobs are there in Kinkora?
The 2021 census found about 430 people with their usual workplace in Kinkora, or 0.9 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 49 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Kinkora?
The 2021 census found 9.9% of those working or looking without a job; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What is the average household income in Kinkora?
Before tax, half the households in Kinkora had more than $78,600 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · Statistics Canada, tables 98-10-0458 and 98-10-0459 (commuting) · Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0323 (EI beneficiaries) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts (33-10-1176) · grades: TownRatings. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).